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-white employees, a finding that is consistent with employer discrimination on grounds of race, or lower worker bargaining power when …
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In many developed countries, racial and ethnic minorities are paid, on average, less than the native white majority. While racial wage differentials are partly the result of immigration, they also persist for racial minorities of second and further generations. Eliminating racial wage...
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There is extensive scholarship on the condition of being a minority in one's home country and vast literature on the experience of immigrants in host countries. However, almost no attention has been paid to the distinct mechanisms pertaining to immigrants who were minorities in the source...
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This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on students' academic performance in New York City primary schools. We use exogenous variation in the share of Asian students across cohorts and schools stemming from a fertility shock among Asian population in the Chinese year of the Dragon....
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In recent years, as the homeownership rate in the United States reached its highest level in history, homeownership itself remained unevenly distributed, particularly along racial and ethnic lines. By using data from the 2000 Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and 2006 American...
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components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent …This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic …. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3 …
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importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by … and the less-skilled, especially among Hispanics, and that labor market networks appear to be race-based. …
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possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare … even after controlling for income, health and other demographic factors like employment. We find that race does not matter …
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, we test for heterogeneity across race and skill level in the gender gap in homeownership and the probability of … differences. Our results also suggest significant heterogeneity across race and skill level in homeownership probabilities for …
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